Installing DataStax Community on any Linux-based platform
Install on all Linux-based platforms, including Mac OSX and platforms without package support, or if you do not have or want a root installation.
DataStax no longer provides the DataStax Community version of Apache Cassandra™ or the DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra. See DataStax support for Apache Cassandra. |
To download and install the latest version of open-source Cassandra, see https://cassandra.apache.org/. |
Use these steps to install Cassandra on all Linux-based platforms using a binary tarball.
For a complete list of supported platforms, see Apache Cassandra.
Prerequisites
- The latest version of Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or 7. See Installing the JRE.
- Java Native Access (JNA) is required for production installations. See Installing the JNA.
- Python 2.6+ (needed if installing OpsCenter).
- If you are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, you must update to JNA 3.4, as described in Installing the JNA using the binary tarball.
- If you are using an older RHEL-based Linux distribution, such as CentOS-5, you may see the following error: GLIBCXX_3.4.9 not found. You must replace the Snappy compression/decompression library (snappy-java-1.0.5.jar) with the snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar.
The binary tarball runs as a stand-alone process.
Procedure
In a terminal window: